The Fixer

Bernard Malamud. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $5.75 on inside flap. Jacket design by the great Janet Halverson. Some soiling on back of jacket along with a small area of chipping on top of spine, otherwise, the jacket is in good shaoe. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Garrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Book design by Marshall Lee.  

The novel is about antisemitism in the Russian Empire. It won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 

First published in 1966, The Fixer was described for its fashionable prose by Elizabeth Harding at Vogue as "brilliant" and harrowing. . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make it a novel of startling importance." And Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, "what makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity.This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." The Fixer "deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth" (The Independent). It was the basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates.

His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a film in 1984, starring Robert Redford.